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A letter from the To Kill a Mockingbird author to her friend Charles Weldon Carruth, recently sold at auction, contains a litany of complaints about Monroeville.

Specifically, Lee resented how the town was exploiting its connection to her to rake in tourism revenue, according to the Guardian.

“The hypocrites in charge, not a one of whom I know, say they are doing this to ‘honour’ me. What they are doing is trying to drown me in their own bad taste, and are embarrassing me beyond endurance,” she wrote in 1993 to Carruth.